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CONTAINING A COMPLETE RECORD OF THE SEASON OF 
1896-97, WITH AMENDED PLAYING RULES OF 

THE AMATEUR HOCKEY LEAGUE of NEW YORK, 
THE AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION of 
CANADA, THE ONTARIO HOCKEY AS- 
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ICE HOCKEY. 



HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. 

Ice hockey is fast becoming a regulation American sport. 
Like many others it is an imported pastime and has found 
almost as much favor during the past winter as did golf after 
the first year of its introduction. Along with the revival of 
indoor athletics has come an increased interest in ice hockey, 
which, dating back but a couple of years, last winter amounted 
to that purely American outburst of effort known as a "boom." 
Three winters ago Chicago, Minneapolis and Detroit were 
about the only scenes of the game's activity, but last winter 
wherever ice could be found, out of doors or inside, East and 
West, ice hockey was being played. 

The game should not be confused with hockey nor ice polo. 
The former (from which ice hockey and ice polo have grown) 
is a very ancient field pastime, sometimes known as bandy, 
shinney or shintey. Originally, Romans played the game with 
a leather ball stuffed with feathers and a crooked club or bat 
called a bandy, because of being bent. A fourteenth century 
m^anuscript contains a drawing of two bandy players facing 
each other at a short distance and armed with bandy sticks, 
very similar to the hockey sticks of the present day used in the 
United Kingdom. The object was to strike the ball past each 
other, and if one failed to stop it, whatever ground was covered 
by the ball was claimed by the opponent, and so on with vary- 
ing success until either boundary was reached, the latter being 
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The game (hockey) which is now very popular in Great 
Britain is played on a rectangular field of turf, 125 yards long 
by 54 yards wide, with goal posts quite similar to those we use 
for foot ball. Fifteen players constitute a team, which consists 
of a goal-keeper, two backs, three half-backs, seven forwards 
and two advance -forwards. They carry ash sticks 34 inches 
or less in length, M'ith a crook at the lower end not more than 
four inches long, and endeavor to strike a self-inflating one- 
ounce india rubber ball (which is 1% inches in diameter) with 
the stick, so as to make it pass between the goal posts and under 
the cross bar. As may be imagined, the game is exceedingly 
rough, probably because so many men are bunched at times. 
From this British game Canadians extracted ice hockey and 
have played the game so long in their climate, where natural 
ice skating is indulged in steadily from Dec. ist until late in 
each spring, that they have well nigh reached perfection. 

Only in the most northerly part of the United States are the 
winters severe enough to make ice hockey very practicable out 
of doors. (Every Canadian town of ordinary size has its cov- 
ered, natural-ice rink.) In other parts of our country the lakes 
and rivers are seldom frozen hard enough for skating or ice 
sports for any length of time, and this has caused a number of 
artificial-ice rinks to be constructed in our big cities, where 
most of the ice hockey matches are played. 

The sport has flourished with both the player and spectator 
and will be found interesting to the most exacting critic, his 
attention being fully occupied through every moment of play. 
It has all the rapidity and great variety of action to be seen in 
lacross.e and polo (on horseback) without the roughness of the 
former or danger of the latter, and the same opportunity is 
offered for individual, brilliant play and perfect team-work (the 
secret of an ice hockey team's success). From the moment the 
referee signifies the start, the spectators' nerves are kept at a 
tension which. is not relaxed until the final call of time, there 
being very little or nothing of the element of "time calls," 
M'hich have proved such a fruitful cause for criticism in foot 
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delay of five minutes, but this occurs rarely; or a player insist- 
ing on continued off-side play or being sent from the ice for 
infringement of any rule, causing a momentary stoppage. 
Otherwise the time is employed in brilliant rushes, quick 
checking and clever passes. 

The requisites are few — a clear sheet of hard ice, invigor- 
ating atmosphere and a number of quick, sure skaters, who, 
M^hen aided and abetted by an enthusiastic company of sup- 
porters, will furnish as interesting an evening's entertainment 
as any sport lover could desire. The principles of the game 
are so simple as to be readily understood by even the most dis- 
interested. An ice hockey team is composed of seven men, 
four of whom are called forwards or rushers and form the 
attack, while the other three, cover-point, point and goal- 
keeper, have only defensive work, though at intervals the 
cover-point is called upon to back up or feed the forwards. 
Goal posts are erected at either end of a rink, shaped like a 
foot ball or lacrosse field, which is bounded by upright plank- 
ing, touching and extending two or more feet in height from 
the ice surface. Each player is equipped with a "stick," 
made, preferably of second-growth ash, length to suit holder, 
resembling in form somewhat an ice polo stick, except it is not 
so curved on the end, which is formed into a blade less than 
thirteen inches in length and three in width, and bent so as to 
rest and allow about a foot of play along the ice. The object 
is to drive the "puck" between and through the opponents' 
goal posts. The puck is a disk of solid vulcanized rubber 
three inches in diameter and one inch thick. It slides along 
the ice with great ease and rapidity, being usually dribbled, 
and as it passes from player to player it is shoved or scooped 
rather than struck ato 

A successful ice hockey player must be very active on his 
feet, quick with his hand, keen of eye and have aW his faculties 
alert. He must be an expert on skates, as almost every known 
skill on ice is needed in the game, and he should be mounted 
on regulation ice hockey skates, the blades of which are almost 
straight on the bottom and thus better adapted for the light- 




D. Bain. R. Benson. R. M. Flctt. 

C. J. Campbell. J. C. G. Arniytage G. H. Merritt. 

F. Higginbotham. (Capt.). ^ T. A.*Howard. 

A. Code, Vice-Pres. J. Carter (Mascot). E. B. Ni.von, Tres. 

VICTORIA ICE HOCKEY TEAM OF WINNIPEG. 



ICE HOCKEY. II 

ning turns and sudden stops necessary in the play. He must 
be able to start quickly and to skate fast and low — as a back 
must run "hard and low" in foot ball — thus preventing being 
easily thrown off his feet by the body-checking, blocking or 
interference (all of which is allowed) of an opponent. He 
must be able to twist and dodge quickly, as it is often useful 
in outwitting an opponent who blocks the path toward the 
goal. An accomplishment much practiced in Canada, and a 
very useful one, too, is jumping over the stick of an opponent 
while under full headway, and thus avoiding many a fall or 
trip, intentional or otherwise. As ice hockey is a very severe 
game and one that calls for constant exertion, on the part of 
the forwards in particular, players must be athletes of excep- 
tional endurance and have any amount of grit and "sand." 

Two halves of thirty (sometimes twenty) minutes each con- 
stitute time of play, and the game is in charge of a referee, 
two goal umpires and one or two timekeepers. 

The play is started by " facing " the puck at the centre of the 
field between the sticks of two opposing centre forwards. 
When the referee calls "play" these men strive to gain pos- 
session of the puck and pass it to other players of their own 
team and an exciting attack and defense of goals follows. Of 
the four forwards the two best goal-drivers should hold centre 
positions and the fastest forwards be placed in the wings or on 
the ends. . As soon as one of the four gains possession of the 
puck he rushes for the goal his team is attacking, the remain- 
ing three following close behind or abreast of him, but spread 
out across the rink in an irregular line. Where good form is 
shown, one forward rarely carries the puck longer than a few 
seconds, it being kept on the pass from one to the other with 
great speed and accuracy, thus lessening the opportunity for 
an opponent to gain its possession. On their w^ay toward the 
goal — granted that the opposing forwards have been passed — 
the opposing cover-point is the first man encountered and he, 
of course, confronts the player with the puck. The latter 
passes it across to one of his partners and thus they advance 
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sary and, if successful, tlie goal is attacked. A number of 
quick shots and stops follow until a goal is either scored, or an 
opponent " lifts" the puck down the rink and out of harm's 
way, or possibly dribbles it down, followed by his own for- 
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The sides of the rink are used somewhat like billiard cush- 
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ability in dodging his opponents, carrom the puck past an 
opponent, or to another of his own side who has signaled and 
is ready to receive it. While running with the puck it should 
be dribbled just ahead of the player; that is, advanced by a 
^apid succession of short, alternate right and left strokes, thus 
baffling an attacking opponent. 

The main object of an expert player, and very difficult of 
accomplishment, is to "lift" the puck, making it travel over 
the heads of his opponents a distance of twenty or thirty yards 
perhaps when necessary before striking the ice. It is the duty 
of the point and cover-point to " lift " whenever necessary to 
keep the puck in the vicinity of the opposition goal. These 
two players are "feeders" for their forwards, and they 
should "run" down with the puck when they have fairly clear 
ice, rather than losing possession of it by lifting. This stroke 
is also invaluable to a player when shooting for goal, as a goal 
keeper can almost always stop the puck when shot from any 
distance if it slides along the ice with his skates or stick, but 
they are of little use in preventing a sizzling, "lifted" shot 
from scoring which comes at the goal about two feet from the 
ice. To "lift" a puck, an indescribable wrist motion or twist 
is imparted to the stroke, which employs a full arm and body 
motion- to give it force, and it can only be gained by long prac- 
tice. An expert can "lift" a puck through the air with the 
greatest accuracy and terrific speed. Of course, both hands 
are used to handle the stick — this being an unwritten law of 
ice hockey — and a player need never expect to do any effective 
work without both hands on his stick at any stage of the play. 
A player who attempts to advance or even control a puck with 
but one hand on his stick, and the latter probably at arm's 




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G. Curtis. 
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length, is easily'disposed of by an adversary, who can readily 
push the one-hander's stick away by the slightest blow, whereas, 
if properly held, a much greater degree of force can be with- 
stood, and the control is strengthened heyond measure. 

The "off-side" rule in ice hockey is the controlling feature 
of the game, adding to the play great interest and complete 
government of attacking methods. The rule provides that a 
player shall always be on his own side of the puck or simply 
speaking, its object is to prevent a player passing the puck 
forward to another member of his own team, but admits of his 
passing it across the rink at right angles to the side lines, or 
back toward his own goal. A player is "off-side" if he is 
nearer the opponent's goal line than the player of his own team 
who last hit the puck, and he is not allowed to touch it, or 
interfere or obstruct an opponent until again " on-side." He 
may be put "on-side " when the puck has been touched by an 
opponent, or when he has skated back of one of his own side 
who either has possession of the puck or played it last when 
behind the offender. A match is stopped if a man, when off-- 
side, plays the puck or obstructs an opponent, and as a penalty 
the puck is faced where it was last played from before the in- 
fringeme;it occurred.* 

This rule tends to make the player in possession of the puck 
keep even with or a trifle ahead of his other forwards at all 
times, thus allowing him to pass it to any of them whenever 
his progress may be threatened or obstructed; were they ahead 
of him he would be without allies. 

The puck may only be advanced by the use of the stick, but 
il may be stopped by the skate or any part of the body (the 
Ontario. Hoekey Association rules prevent stopping the puck 
with the hand except by the goal-tend). Thus a clever goal- 
tend intercepts many a try-for-goal, though at the cost of as 
many bruises where his body has met the flying puck. He 

* The rules of the Amateur Hockey League of New York, enforced last 
winter, provided for the surrender of the puck to the opposing side in the 
event of an off-side play, the offending team not being allowed to approach 
leareir than five yards while the puck vv^as being put in play again without 
BJiterference. This rule has now been made void. 




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very rarely leaves his station between the goal-posts, and then 
only after signaling the point to fall back into his position, the 
goal-tend having left same in order to return a long "lift" 
which has dropped back of and near the posts, the opposing 
forwards, of course, being at some distance down the rink. 

Through the agility of a clever goal-tend the score of a 
match is often kept down to a small number of goals, as he 
kills many tries which would score but for his good work. The 
rules forbid him to lie, sit or kneel upon the ice, and compel 
him to maintain a standing position. When a scrimmage 
occurs near his goal, his is the most difficult, and usually the 
most thankless, work of any man on the team. Though he 
may frequently gain a momentary possession of the puck, he 
seldom has room or time to pass it far down therink or even 
directly to one of his own side. His play then is to shoot it 
off to one side of the rink, either to the right or left of the 
"goal, thus preventing another try-for-goal until the puck is 
worked back again into a favorable position. 

The thorough or loose work of a referee regulates the 
amount of foul play in ice hockey, and unless he be firm and 
strict, for players so inclined, there are many opportunities to 
trip, collar, kick, push, cross-check, charge from behind, etc., 
all of which are forbidden by the rules. For infringements of 
this character, as well as for raising a stick above the shoulder, 
the penalty is disqualification, the referee ruling the offending 
player off the ice, for any portion of actual playing time as he 
may deem fit. 

Goal umpiring is by no means the least important part of an 
ice hockey match, though the manner in which this office was 
filled at maiiy league contests in New York City last winter 
would lead one so to believe. As a decision mads by a goal 
umpire is final, he should be most painstaking and always on 
the alert. His work can only be performed properly when 
stationed in a cleared space reserved solely for his use. This 
space should be just back of the rink boundary and somewhat 
longer than the goal is wide, as he must be able to move 
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many different angles. Many a match has been won for a team 
by the tricky work of their goal tend, who by a quick stroke 
has put the puck in play again after having stopped it several 
inches in goal, this being done of course when a "slow" umpire 
was " taking things easy " in a chair directly behind the goal- 
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A REVIEW OF ICE HOCKEY DURING 
THE WINTER OF 1896-97 

GREATER NEW YORK. 

In New York City ice hockey made its greatest strides during 
the past winter, and met with much favor from the public. 
The progress of the game was mainly due to the fact that three 
artificial-ice rinks were maintained in and al^out the city, a 
privilege which many localities have not enjoyed. The New 
York Hockey Club, now known as the Hockey Club of 
New York, which is composed entirely of Canadian resi- 
dents of the metropolis, who learned the game on the 
other side of the St. Lawrence River, was the first to introduce 
ice hockey in New York. During the winter of 'g5-'g6 they 
practiced regularly at the "ice Palace" Rink, where they made 
their headquarters, and played several matches with the Mont- 
clair Athletic Club team, and two visiting teams from Montreal, 
and also the Baltimore Athletic Club team. During the close 
of the season (in the latter part of March, 'g6) the St. Nicholas 
Rink was opened, and with it came the organization of the 
St. Nicholas Skating Club and its hockey team. The latter 
club met and defeated representative teams from Cornell and 
Yale Universities, but lost to the New York Hockey Club, who 
were without doubt entitled to the championship honor of the 
season. * 

This crack team of New York Hockey Club experts, some 
of whom were previously members of the New York Athletic 
Club, all became identified with the latter club early last 
winter, and as representatives of this powerful athletic organi- 
zation again won the undisputed title of champions ; this time, 
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ICE HOCKEY. 23 

This league was formed in November, '96, and included the 
New York Athletic Club, St. Nicholas Skating Club, Crescent 
Athletic Club, and Skating Club of Brooklyn. The two latter 
clubs represented the Clermont Avenue Rink in Brooklyn, the 
St. Nicholas Rink being the home ice of the remaining two. 
A series of matches was inaugurated, and play continued 
throughout the winter for a championship trophy. The matches 
resulted as follows : 

Amateur Hockey League of New York — Record of 
Matches — Season of 1896-97. 

Date Goals Goals 

Dec. 16 St. Nicholas S. C 16 S. C. of Brooklyn 

Dec. 22 New York A. C 22 Crescent A. C 

Jan. 5 New York A. C 14 S. C. of Brooklyn 

Jan. 14 St. Nicholas S. C 7 Crescent A. C 

Jan. 26 S. C. of Brooklyn 2 Crescent A. C 2 

Jan. 30 New York A. C 3 St. Nicholas S. C 2 

Feb. 16.... New York A. C 11 Crescent A. C 

Feb. 23 St. Nicholas S. C 8 S. C. of Brooklyn 

*Feb. 26 S. C. of Brooklyn 7 Crescent A. C 

March 3 New York A. C 7 S. C. of Brooklyn 1 

March 4 St. Nicholas S. C 10 Crescent A. C 1 

March 9 S. C. of Brooklyn 3 Crescent A. C 

March 23 New York A. C 3 St. Nicholas S. C 1 

*Play off of tie match of Jan. 26th. 

SUMMARY BY MATCHES. 

Won Lost Tied 

New York Athletic Club 6 

St. Nicholas Skating Club 4 2 

Skating Club of Brooklyn 2 4 1 

Crescent Athletic Club 6 1 

SUMMARY BY GOALS. Opponents 

Scored Scored 

New York Athletic Club 60 4 

St. Nicholas Skating Club i 44 7 

Skating Club of Brooklyn 13 47 

Crescent Athletic Club 3 62 

Note. — On April 2d an exhibition game was played at the St. Nicholas 
Rink between the St. Nicholas and New York A. C. teams. The latter 
played several substitutes and lost by a score of one goal to none. 

As the summary shows, the New York A. C. team won quite 
easily, the only competitors who forced them in the least being 
the St. Nicholas team. The two clubs from Brooklyn were 
never in the hunt at any stage of the game, the form they 
exhibited being far out-pointed by many minor teams whom 
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The personnel of the four teams of the Amateur Hockey 
League was as follows : 

New York Athletic Club, — J. A. Fenwick, Captain ; 
T. I. Lynch, G. B. Macrae, F. C. Worham, A. G. Fry, D. M. 
Spalding, B. Bogert, A. R. Pope, G. Miller, T. E. Tomlinson, 
A. Kerwin, Blair, D. Cameron, Russell, Cassells, D. G. Smythe 
and R. D. Radcliffe. 

St. Nicholas Skating Club. — Thos. Barron, Captain ; 
H. W. Slocum, R. D, Wrenn, Erskine Hewitt, E. A. Crownin- 
shield, Malcolm Chace, W. A. Earned, J. W. Callender, C. M. 
Pope, Hobart, Livingston, Ward and G. M. Wharton. 

Skating Club of Brooklyn. — Howard Drakely, Captain ; 
W. A. Barnett, J. A. Hall, Walker, McKenzie, Randall, 
Chaloner, Hallock, Wadsworth, Lehming, Wise and Hill. 

Crescent Athletic Club. — Carroll J. Post, Jr., Captain ; 
Cavarly, Jewell, Garvin, Beaton, Miller, Roberts, C. H. 
Jacobs, Toerge, J. Lounsbury, Lever, Darrell and Curry. 

The remaining members of the New York Hockey Club, un- 
daunted by the desertion of their seven best men to the New. 
York Athletic Club, got together one of the most clever teams 
that played ice hockey in the metropolitan district last winter. 
With headquarters still at the Ice Palace Rink, they played a 
series of sixteen matches, winning twelve, losing one and tieing 
three, as follows : Their one defeat was registered agaiast 
them by their old members, the New York Athletic Club team, 
by a score of 4 to i, but by grand work they tied this same 
team on two other occasions, the scores being i to i and 2 to 2. 
They met the St. Nicholas team twice, defeating them and 
playing a tie match of one goal each as well. Twice the Mont- 
clair Athletic Club lost to the New York Hockey Club by the 
close score of i to o. The -Skating Club of Brooklyn was de- 
feated four times, the Crescent A. C. team three times, and 
Princeton University and Clifton (S. I.) Hockey Club one each. 
These men, all former Canadians, represented the club during 
the season : R. A. Hunt, Captain ; O'Donnell, Leckie, Nelson, 
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Ranking next, by comparison of matches played, is the team 
of the Montclair (N. J,) Athletic Club. With no rink practice 
whatever, excepting that gained during their matches, this 
team played probably the most wonderful ice hockey of tlie 
winter, and many of the exhibitions in which they took part 
would have done credit to players of long experience. They 
defeated Yale University by 6 goals to i, tied the St. Nicholas 
team on one occasion by a score of 3 goals each, lost to the 
champion New York A. C. team by the close score of i to o, 
and by the same score, after a fierce struggle, lost to the All- 
Baltimore (Md.) team, a selected seven of the Baltimore 
Hock^ League's best players. The complete record of their 
matches follows : 

Montclair A. C. Ice Hockey Team Record — 
Season of 1896-97, 

Goals 
St. Nicholas Skating Club. . 8 
New York Hockey Club.... 1 

Yale University 1 

Crescent A. C 1 

St. Nicholas Skating Club.. 3 
New York Hockey Club ... 1 
South Orange Field Club... 
St. Nicholas Skating Club.. 3 
Queen's University, Canada 6 

Stevens Institute 2 

St. Nicholas Skating Club. . 6 

Stevens Institute 3 

Skating Club of Brooklyn. . 

New York A. C 1 

All-Baltimore (Picked team) 1 
Columbia Universit}'- 1 



Date 


Where Played 


Goals 


Pec. 5 . . 


.St. Nicholas Rink 


.M.A.C.,0 


Dec. 11 . 


.Ice Palace Rink 





Dec. 16 . 


.Clermont Rink 


6 


Dec. 29 . 


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5 


Jan. 5. . . 


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Jan. 15.. 


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Jan. 16.. 


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6 


Jan. 21.. 


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3 


Jan. 26. . 


.Clermont Rink 


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Feb. 13. . 


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.St. Nicholas Rink 


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Feb. 20. . 


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Feb. 27. . 


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The Montclair A. C. team was composed of the following 
players : Herman J, Koehler, Captain ; M. R. Hornfeck, 
G. A. Hornfeck, H. F. Hornfeck, Allan N. Kennaday, Edwin 
J.. Emerson, Arthur S. Williams, Lemuel Jacobus, Clarence 
Place and D. B. Mulligan. 

Among other clubs who maintained representative ice hockey 
teams last winter are the Union Club, the Calumet Club, the 
St. Anthony Club and the Racquet and Tennis Club, who 
competed for a handsome ice hockey challenge cup presented 
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R-. L. Stevens, E. Hewitt, G. Paddock, W. P. Coster, G. T. 
Warren, W. Nichols and S. Scheifflin, while the players of the 
Racquet and Tennis club team were P. Chubb, H. W. Slocum, 
H. Taylor, R. Stevens, H. Chubb, J. McClintock, S. de Gar- 
mendia, Grierson, Stoddard and Hewitt. The St. Anthony 
Club was represented by Littell, Hawley, Inman, Miles, 
Mortimer, Norrie and La Farge. 

The Second and Third Divisions of the First Naval Bat- 
talion, State of New York, were represented by teams who 
played an interesting series of three matches, the Second 
Division winning all, with the following team : H. W. Walton, 
Captain ; J. D. O. Murray, E. Crawford, J. M. Mitchell, R. 
M. Crosby, R. Walden and D. B. Brigham. These men made 
up the team of the Third Division : Beebe, Captain ; Gilmore, 
Burtnett, Bill, Schirm, Achearn, Hunt, Folsome and Pentz. 

The South Orange (N. J.) Field Club team played a number 
of creditable matches in the New York rinks, with the follow- 
ing men : R. Miles, Captain ; Jennings, Grulle, Conway, Allen, 
G. Miles, Watkins and L'Hommedieu. Another team, hailing 
from Orange, N. J., was that representing the Mountain To- 
boggan Club. 

A team composed of members of the Orange Lake (N.Y.) Ice 
Yacht Club practiced and played a series of matches on their 
home ice, when weather permitted, with the Newburgh (N. Y.) 
Hockey Club, also appearing in the Clermont Rink on several 
occasions, and before the season was over played an excellent 
game. Their make-up included : C, M. Stebbins, Captain ; 
Trask, Chadwick, Gleich, E. A. Java, Leicht and H. J. Java. 

Two good ice hockey teams were in existence on Staten 
Island last winter, viz., that representing the Staten Island 
Cricket and Base Ball Club and the Clifton Hockey Club. The 
latter included S. McDonnell, M. J. Kellion, J. B. Cornell, 
A. Thompson, W. Hardin, Jr., R. Manthrop, R. Lee, Jr., 
J. B. Lancaster, Keegan, O'Dwyer and Braniff. 

Two companies of the Seventh Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y., 
were represented by teams who played several practice matches 
Yfith outside teams, and they met on Feb. 23, at the St. Nicholas 




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Rink, in a match for a trophy. The winning team was that of 
the Tenth Company, who scored two goals to none by their 
competitors, the Ninth Company. The players were as follows. 

Tenth Company. — Barron, Captain ; Spies, Scott, New- 
combe, Hoy, La Farge and Maynard. 

Ninth Company. — Cavarly, Captain; Coppell, Arthur, 
Belden, Homans, Waring and Cragen. 

BOSTON. 

Although Boston (Mass.), the home of ice polo, has no artifi- 
cial-ice rink, they were quite fortunate last winter in being 
favored with enough cold weather to give them quite steady 
skating on their natural-ice rinks. The growth of ice hockey 
in the States led to the adopting of the game by the Cambridge 
(or sometinies called All-Massachusetts) Ice Polo, and Hockey 
Team, which pirt up a "very fair article of ice hockey, defeating 
a green Har\ard University team and playing a close match 
A\ith the champion New York A. C. team, though they lost by 
the score of 3 goals to none. They were the onl}^ team 
from the States to make a Canadian tour last winter, and this 
they very -wrongfully did under the assiimed title of a '• Harvard 
University " team. Six matches were played, and though all 
were defeats, the Cambridge men learned much al)Out ice 
hockey, and consoled themselves with the fact that they \\-ere 
not the only American team that had been accorded the self- 
same reception in previous winters. The results of their 
)natches follow : 

Cambridge Ice Polo and Hockey Team Record — Season 
of 189G-97. 

Date Where Played Goals Goals 

Feb. 3.. . .Chute Rink Boston Cambridge, 4 Harvard University .. . 1 

Feb. 5. .. .Chutes Rink, Boston " .5 Picked Team 

Feb. 9. ...St. Nicholas Rink, N.Y.. " 1 St. Nicholas S. C 2 

Feb. 11. ..St. Nicholas Rink, N.Y.. " New York A. C 3 

Mch. 4. ..Victoria Rink. Mo;. treal.. 'S, 1 McGil University 14 

Mch. 6... Ottawa Rink " 2 Aberdeen H C. .". . ...8 

Mch. 8... Ottawa Rink " 3 Ottawa College 5 

Mch. 9. . .Rideau Rink, Toronto. . . " All-Bank Teamipicked) 7 

Mch. 10.. Kingston Rink " Frontenac H. C 10 

Mch. 11.. Quebec Rink " 3 Quebec H. C. (Senior). 8 




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ICE HOCKEY. 35 

The Cambridge team was composed entirely of New England- 
ers, some of whom are graduates of Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, Brown University and Harvard The captain was 
W. E. Jewell, Jr., and the other players were: "Jack" Corbett, of 
Harvard foot ball fame ; M. Lyman, H. A. Hopkins, Matteson, 
Lamb, H. Glidden, Morton. Burton and N. Tobey. 

PITTSBURG. 

The destruction by fire of the Schenley Park Casino of Pitts- 
burg, on Dec. 17, i8g6, put a damper on ice hockey in that 
city, from which there is no relief in sight as yet. The game 
was highly popular, and excited so much interest during the win- 
ter of '95-'96 that two leagues were formed and schedules made 
ready (l)ut necessarily never played) for the following winter. 
The teams entered in the Western Pennsylvania League Avere 
those representing the Pittsburg Hockey Club, Western Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, Pittsburg Athletic Club and Duquesne 
Country and Athletic Club. The second or Interscholastic 
League was composed of East Liberty Academy, Pittsburg 
High School, Pittsburg Academy, Pittsburg College, Shady- 
side Academy, and Duquesne College. The Schenley Park 
Casino was the largest and without question the most beautiful 
artificial-ice skating rink ever constructed, being arranged with 
an immense stage and seating capacity for the accommodation 
of operatic productions during the summer season. Ice hockey 
was first introduced to Pittsburg audiences by the visit of the 
Queens University team (senior champions of the Ontario 
Hockey Association), from Kingston, Canada, about two years 
ago, and a series of friendly matches between the Montreal 
and Shamrock teams, both of Montreal, during the same season. 

CHICAGO. 

Aij^ artificial-ice rink was maintained in " Tattersalls " big 
auditorium in Chicago, and much ice hockey was played there 
during the winter 'g5-'g6, and although the sport appeared to 
be gaining in popularity, this rink was not opened last winter. 



36 ' ICE HOCKEY. 

The Chicago Athletic Association Avas the principal exponent 
of the game, their matches with a Aisiting aggregation of 
Canadians called "Spalding's Team," proving of great 
interest. This same team traveled to Minneapolis, St. Paul, 
Milwaukee, Detroit and Buffalo, in all of which cities natural- 
ice rinks flourish and ice hockey is played more or less and is 
ra]Didly grov>nng in favor. 

BALTlMORE« 

Baltimore is probably the most enthusiastic ice hockey city 
in the country. Soon after the sport was introduced to the 
States the Baltimoreans took it up with great earnestness i=..nd 
an artificial-ice rink, the North Avenue Ice Palace, was 
opened in Baltimore about three years ago. Since then this 
rink has furnished an arena for many fierce and exciting 
matches and the large audiences which turn out for every 
scheduled game, show a most generous appreciation of the 
sport. This intense interest may be partly accounted for by 
the fact that in the South it is practically impossible to enjoy 
ice sports on any but artificial-ice, and the climate is too mild 
to supply natural-ice for the purpose. 

A keen^rivalry existed between the teams representing Johns 
Hopkins University and the Baltimore Athletic Club the first 
season that the rink was opened. Dr. W. A. Bisnaw, familiarly 
known as " the father of Baltimore's hockey " and Mr. S. Alf. 
Mitchell, formerly of Queens University Hockey Team, of 
Kingston, Canada, who was studying in Baltimore, did much 
to promote and develop the players of these teams, and under 
their able coaching they soon became cpiite as expert as their 
rivals in more northern cities. Later the Baltimore Ilockey 
Club was organized and included C. K. Harrison, Jr., Captain ; 
Harry E. Perry T. B. Harrison, Milton Whitehurst, G. Reese, 
PI. llaughton, Harry Jenkins, Charles F. Corning, and E. 
Parmly, Jr. This was a very formidable aggregation,^)eing 
the pick of Baltimore's best men at the game. The club dis- 
banded about January 15th, iSgy, to, assist in forming an ice 
hockey league. 



Ice hockey. 37 

During January, 1897, the Baltimore Hockey League was 
organized, and the fierce struggle which ensued for the posses- 
sion of the championship trophy, the Northampton Cup, pre- 
sented by Mr, J. S. Filon, is probably without precedent. 
Four teams composed the league, as follows: Maryland Ath- 
letic Club, University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, 
and Northampton Hockey Club. A series of six matches Mas . 
arranged for each team, which was to meet each opponent in i 
two matches, all to be' played at the North Avenue Ice Palace 
Rink, between February 2d and March 26th. The completion 
of the regular scheduled matches found two teams tied for first 
honors with five wins and one loss each, and the oth^r tw^o tied 
for third place. Two extra matches were played to decide 
these ties, with the following result: 

Baltimore Hockey League — ^Season of 1896-97, 
summary by matches, 

Won Lost Tied 

Maryland Athletic Club 6 1 1 

*Universitjr of Maryland 5 2 

Northampton Hockey Club 2 5 

Johns Hopkins University 1 6 1 

*Declared champions by decision of court (see below). 

Unfortunately, however, the championship was far from de- 
termined as future developments proved. The final contest 
between the leaders had awakened intense interest throughout 
the city and was a very close match. After a most severe and 
very rough struggle the Maryland Athletic Club team earned 
two goals to one secured by the University, and were conceded 
the M'inners by almost everyone in the immense audience, 
when just before the final call of time in the second half the 
University of Maryland was awarded a goal which tied the 
score, by Umpire Walter Whitehurst. As the shot was a high 
one and questioned by many, a long dispute followed. The 
specified time having expired, the referee, G. B, Macrae of the 
New York Athletic Club, ordered the match to continue, and 
(under the rules*) as the University of Maryland scored the 

*Rules of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada were adopted by the 
Baltimore Hockey League. 



3§ iCE HOCKEY. 

first goal during the play-off they were declared the winners of 
the match by 3 goals to 2. 

Immediately the play was finished a protest of the umpire's 
decision was entered by the Maryland Athletic Clul), claiming 
the disputed goal was no goal, and with it thrown out the score 
at the end of the match would have been 2 to i in their favor. 
The protest was heard by the executive committee of the 
league, who took much evidence as to whether or not the goal 
was fairly shot. On vote of this committee it was decided that 
the goal was not shot, and that the Maryland Athletic Club 
was entitled to the match, championship title and Northampton 
cup, the latter being promptly turned over to their custody. 

This awoke the greatest indignation among the University of 
Maryland students, who declared from the first that under the 
rules governing the play it was illegal to change the umpire's 
decision. Considerable bitter feeling was engendered, which 
grew to such extent that the University men took the matter 
into court and replevined the cup, but the Athletic Club 
stolidly refused to relinquish their hold upon it. 

This made the affair still deeper in the mire, and on Sept. 
30th, 1897, the University of Maryland retained three promin- 
ent lawyers and brought suit against the Athletic Club to 
obtain ^possession of the much-coveted and disputed cup. 
Justice Bailey, who heard the petition which involved the 
point as to whether or not an umpire's decision in an ice 
hockey game is final, after listening to many witnesses from 
both sides, decided, on Oct. i6th, that according to the rules 
played under, there was no appeal from the umpire's decision 
on the question of goals, and that by the decision of the 
umpire the match in question and likewise the championship 
was won by the University of Maryland. The cup was also 
ordered turned over to the rightful holders. This gives the 
University one leg on the cup, which must be won three dif- 
ferent seasons before becoming the property of any league 
member. 

According to the above decision the corrected and final 
standing of the teams was : 



Lost 


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ICE HOCKEY. , 39 

SUMMARY BY MATCHES. 

Wor 

University of Maryland G 

Maryland Athletic Club 5 

Northampton Hockey Club 2 

Johns Hopkins University 1 

University of Maryland Ice Hockey Team — Record of 
League Matches, Season of 1896-97, 

Goals 

Maryland A. C 2 

Johns Hopkins Univ 1 

Northampton H. C 

Maryland A C 

Johns Hopkins Univ 

Northampton H. C 1 

Johns Hopkins Univ 

Maryland A. C 2 

The match of March I2 lasted one hour and forty minutes, 
actual playing time, without either side scoring. As the 
players were so fatigued they could hardly skate, the match 
was called and played ofi on March 2oth. 

The personnel of the teams comprising the Baltimore Hockey 
League follows : 

University of Maryland — M. V/hitehurst, Captain ; W. 
R. Pond, E. A. Charbonnel, Albert Baker, Henry Kennard, 
S. Deal, H. Whitehurst, Geo. Hicks, F. Weller and H. A. 
Cotton. 

Maryland Athletic Club — Peterson, Captain ; H. E. 
Perry, W. F. Duffy, Focke, Simmonds, C. Corning, Cochran, 
Krebs, C. Harrison and A. Corning. 

Northampton PIockey Club — Dr. W. A. Bisnaw, Captain ; 
H. J. C. Ritchie, W. C. McCullough, Gordon Reese, B. Wagner, 
L. McCabe, P. Goodwin, Smallwood, C. German, Meyers, Mc- 
Cormick, Houston, Green, Flemming, F. C. Porter and I. 
Owings. 

Johns Hopkins University — A. F. Mitchell, Captain ; 
Williams, Hodges, Denmead, Hillis, Hill, Scholl, Hall, Naylor, 
Nelson, Leary and Bagg. 

The following exhibition matches were played by the Balti- 
more Hockey Club, before it disbanded, and the several teams 
of the Baltimore Hockey League during the season. It is well 



40 ICE HOCKEY. 

to State in this connection that the Baltimore rink, the North 
Avenue Ice Palace, is scarcely thirty feet in width, so narrow in 
fact that the home teams have adopted a formation, seen no 
where else. They play but three forwards on their line and 
instead of abolishing the fourth forward (whom they should 
drop entirely, as there is no room for him), he plays behind the 
line and is known as "rover." This fact prevents any fair 
comparison of play by Northern teams on this ice, the narrow 
surface destroying their team-work by not permitting them to 
play their forwards in their usual positions. 

Some Prominent Exhibition Matches Played by the 
Baltimore Teams During the Season of 1896-97. 

Date Goals Goals 

Dec. 16 Baltimore Hockey Club 3 Johns Hopkins University.. . 

Dec. 23 Baltimore Hockey Club 3 Maryland A. C 3 

Dec. 30 Johns Hopkins University. . . 4 Maryland A. C 2 

Jan. 8 Johns Hopkins Universitj^. . . 2 Yale University 2 

Jan. 9 Baltimore Hockey Club Yale University 3 

Feb. 13 Maryland A. C 4 Princeton University 1 

*Feb. 19. . .University of Maryland.. ... . 2 University of Pennsylvania. . 2 

Feb. 20 Johns Hopkins University. . . 3 University of Pennsylvania. . 2 

Feb. 27.... Maryland A. C St. Nicholas S. C 1 

March 6... University of Maryland New York A. C 5 

March 9. . .All-Baltimore (picked team). . 3 Montreal H. C. (Senior) 5 

March 10. .All-Baltimore " '" . . Shamrock H. C. (.Senior) 3 

March 13.. All-Baltimore " " ..1 Montclair A. C 

*Forfeited to U. of P. 

WASHINGTON. 

Though a splendid artificial-ice rink has been in existence 
in Washington, D. C, for a couple of years, ice hockey has not 
met with favor, and for some unknown reason does not thrive 
as in all other localities wherever the game has been intro- 
duced. The Washington liockey Club is still in existence and 
has played a number of inter-city matches with different Balti- 
more teams, but in most instances has lost. 



ICE HOCKEY 41 



ICE HOCKEY IN THE COLLEGES 
AND SCHOOLS. 



To Yale University belongs the credit for the importation of 
ice hockey into the States, or more correctly, to the efforts of 
Malcolm G. Chace and Arthur E. Foote, of Yale. These men, 
who are both lawn tennis experts, learned of the popularity 
and fascination of ice hockey while on one of their visits to 
Canadian tennis tournaments, and both became confirmed 
devotees of the sport at first sight. The following winter 
(about 1894) this pair organized a team of Yale skaters, most 
of whom -vere tennis cracks, and during the Christmas holi- 
days a toux of the prominent Canadian rinks was made. 

Of course the American players (who had previously prac- 
ticed with only a rubber ball instead of a puck) were sadly 
defeated in all the matches they undertook, but the trip was 
regarded as a success, as it furnished much excellent sport, the 
best sort of instruction, and created no end of enthusiasm in 
the breasts of the visitors. They all praised the game highly 
upon their return, and went at it with renewed vigor each 
season, and from this introduction it has rapidly spread to its 
present popularity. 

Yale's first public match of any importance in this country 
was played in the St. Nicholas rink in New York on April i, 
l8g6. It was against the St. Nicholas Skating Club team, 
.who were favored with artificial-ice for steady, daily practice, 
while the college team was necessarily dependent upon varying 
conditions of natural-ice, or more often none at all. The 
St. Nicholas team won by five goals to one, the teams lining 
up as follows : 



42 ICE HOCKEY. 

St. Nicholas S. C. Positions Yale University 

T. Barron \ ( H. Rider 

W.A.Larned (. j,^^^^^.^^ j J, Hall^ 



R.L.Stevens _ C ^^"Twaiub ] M. G. Chace, Capt. 

E. A. Crowninshield ) ' A. Barnes 

Anderson, Capt Cover Point.. . C.S.Morris 

R. D. Wrenn Point W. Corbin 

H. W. Slocum Goal W. Barnett 

Cornell University was the next to take up the game, and 
appeared in a match with the St. Nicholas team, at the latter's 
rink, on March 28, 1896, losing by a score of eight goals to 
none. The Cornell team included H. H. Lyle, Captain ; 
Stevens, J. C. Nellegar and C. R. Wyckoff, forwards ; A. 
Meiklejohn, cover point ; H. II. Milbourn, point, and R. C. 
Mysenburg, goal. 

With a few changes this team played a number of matches 
last winter, and the sport has every indication of becoming a- 
permanent one at Cornell. 

Yale played by far the best game among the college teams 
last winter, notable in her schedule being the match played 
with Queens University of Kingston, Canada, champions of 
the Ontario Hockey Association for the past two years. "A 
complete schedule follows : 

Yale University Ice Hockey Team Record — 
Season of 1896-97. 

Date Goals Goals 

Dec. 16. ..Clermont Rink Yale Univ., 1 Montclair A. C. 



Dec. 24... St. Nicholas Rink, 

Jan. 8 Baltimore (Md.) Rink.. 

Jan. 9.... Baltimore (Md.) Rink., 

Jan. 13. ..St Nicholas Rink 

Jan. 23... St. Nicholas Rink 

Feb. 13... St. Nicholas Rink 

Mch. 13. . St. Nicholas Rink 

Mch. 27.. St. Nicholas Rink , 



2 bt. Nicholas S. C 3 

2 Johns Hopkins Univ.... 2 

3 Baltimore Hockey Club.. 

1 New York A. C 7 

Queens Univ. of Canada, 3 

New York A. C 5 

1 St. Nicholas S. C. 3 

7 Columbia University 2 

The players who represented Yale last winter included : A. F. 
Barnes, '97, Captain ; G. P. Sheldon, Jr., 'g^; H. V. Ryder, '97 ; 
J. A. Hall, '97 ; C. S. Morris, '97 ; S. S. Stoddard. '99 ; H. 
Sutton, '97 ; W. A. Barnett, '98 ; H. Morris, H. C. Smith, 
C. Walworth and Fincke. 

The excellent work done by the University of Maryland 
team and that which represented Johns Hopkins University of 



ICE HOCKEYo 43 

Baltimore, has been covered by description on page 37, These 
teams rank in the order mentioned next to Yale, and quite 
possibly would have defeated Yale had they met in competition. 
Princeton University had a team in the field last winter, 
composed of the following men : Robb, Poe, Evans, Hille- 
brand, Ayers, Pardee, Wheeler, Brokaw, Daniels, Stevenson, 
Atland, Holt, Spurgin, and Blair. This not being an authorized 
'varsity organization, some objection was raised by those in 
authority at Princeton and the team thus prevented from play- 
ing a number of scheduled matches. These games were 
played : 

Princeton University Ice Hockey Team Record — Season 
OF 1896-97. 

Date Where Played Goals Goals 

Jan. 15. .Clermont Rink Princeton Univ., S. C. of Brooklyn. . . 3 

Feb. 10.. Ice Palace Rink " " N. Y. Hockey Club. 2 

Feb. 11.. Clermont Rink " " 2 S. C. of Brooklyn. .. 

Feb. 13.. Baltimore (Md.) Rink.. " " 1 Maryland A. C 4 

University of Pennsylvania's ice hockey team labored under 
the same disadvantages as Yale and Princeton as regards 
natural-ice only for practice. They put up several stiff matches 
however, and should improve in team work — their weakness — 
this winter, as Philadelphia is to have a fine artificial-ice rink. 
The results of their games follow : 

University of Pennsylvania Ice Hockey Team Record — 
Season of 1896-97. 

Date Where Played Goals Goals 

*Feb. 19.... Baltimore (Md.) Rink U. of P., 2 Univ. of Maryland.... 2 

Feb. 20 Baltimore (Md.) Rink " 2 Johns Hopkins Univ. . 3 

Feb. 26 St. Nicholas Rink '" 5 Columbia University .. 

^Forfeited to U. of P. 

These men made up the team : S. Willet, Agnew, Phymister, 
G. W. Orton, H. J. Gibbons, Rogers, Stanley, Mechling, 
Decker, Laird, Smith, Jarvis, Moore, Chattin, Gosman, Stack- 
house and Falke, The first four are Canadians and splendid 
hockey players, particularly Agnew, whose work in the match 
against Columbia was marvelous. 

Columbia University's team showed little improvement 
throughout the season, though being located within a short 



44 ICE HOCKEY. 

distance of the metropolitan rinks, where they secured abund- 
ant practice compared to most of their competitors. The per- 
sonnel of the team was: Van Voorhis, Captain; Tilt, Mortimer, 
Belden, Roberts, O'Dwyer, Longacre, Williams, Putnam, Hall, 
Pell, Elliott and O'Conner, and their record of matches follows: 

Columbia University Ice Hockey Team Record — Season 
OF 1896-97. 

Date Where Played Goals Goals 

Jan. 8. . . .Clermont Rink Columbia Univ., S. C. of Brooklyn 

Feb. 15... Ice Palace Rink. ... " " 4 3d Div., 1st Naval Bat. 1 

Feb. 26. . .St. Nicholas Rink. . " " Univ. of Pennsylvania. 5 

Mch. 25 Clermont Rink " "1 Montclair A. C 5 

Mch. 27. .St. Nicholas Rink.. " " 2 Yale University 7 

Harvard University only attempted ice hockey late last 
winter and played but few matches, their attention having been 
previously devoted to ice polo entirely. These men were on 
the hockey team : Goodridge, Beardsell, Stevens, Clark, Bald- 
win, Dunlop and Elliot. 

Stevens Institute of Hoboken, N. J., M-as represented by the 
following team last winter, which made a very creditable show- 
ing in a number of matches, considering the little practice ob- 
tainable : J. Brune, Captain; Grady, W. Chapin, Scott, Sanson, 
Christy, Frank, J. C. Palmer, E. E. Palmer, Kennedy and 
Grelle. Their best exhibition M^as that of March 30th, at the 
St. Nicholas Rink, where they defeated the Third Division, 
First Naval Battalion, by a score of i-o. 

Rutgers College supported an ice hockey team with this 
personnel : Mills, Captain ; Stryker, Carbon, Drury, Scudder, 
Barrett and Van Clef. 

Some excellent exhibition matches were played by the schools 
of the Metropolitan diijtrict last winter, and near the close of 
the season the rivalry thus aroused led to the formation of the 
Interstate Interscholastic Ice Hockey League, with the follow- 
ing members: • Montclair (N.J ) High School, St. Austin's 
School of Staten Island, and Cutler, De La Salle and Berkeley 
Schools of New York Cif^y. Two silver cups were purchased 
to be awarded the teams finishing first and second in a series of 
matches, which resulted as follo\'\ s ; 






1 





1 


2 


1 










3 


1 


Opponents 


Scored 


3 




5 




13 




20 




13 





ice hockey. 45 

Interstate Interscholastic Ice Hockey League^ -Record 
OF Matches — Season of 1S97. 

Date Where Played Goals Goals 

March 13.... St. Nicholas Rmlc De La Salle 3 St. Austin's 

March 16.... St. Nicholas Rink Montclair 7 Berkeley .0 

March 17. . . .Clermont Rink. . . St. Austin's 3 Berkeley 3 

March 18.... St. Nicholas Rink Cutler 7 De La Salle 3 

March 20. . . . St. Nicholas Rink Cutler. ._ 9 Berkeley 

March 23. . . .Clermont Rink ... Montclair o De La Salle 

March 24. . . .Clermont Rink Cutler 3 St. Austin's 

March 25 St. Nicholas Rink Montclair 3 Cutler 2 

]\'Iarch 2(5. . . .Clermont Rink Montclair 5 St. Austin's 1 

April 1 St. Nicholas Rink De La Salle 1 Berkeley 1 

SUMMARY BY MATCHES. Won Lost Tied 

Montclair High School 3 

Cutler School 3 

De La Salle School 1 

Berkeley Sch ool 

St. Austin's School 

SUMMARY BY GOALS. Scored 

Montclair High School ,. 19 

Cutler School 21 

De La Salle School 6 

Berkeley School 4 

St. Austin's School • 4 

As the record of matches indicates, the championship A^"as 
not decided, and at tliis writin;^ tlie matter still liangs fire. 
jNIuch comment Avas caused by tl^e tie matcli of INIarch 25th, 
between the two leaders in the race, Avliicli if decided, v.-ould 
have determined tlie champions, and -winner of tlie cup for 
second place as well. One of the goal decisions against 3.Iont- 
clair in this match was questioned by all vdio sav/ it save the 
umpire, the puck being stopped by the Culler goal-teml's 
skates while standing very plainly behind the goal line. jMont- 
clair protested, but to no avail, and as developments pr<ncd, 
this goal, if allowed, would have won the match for llicm ]ry a 
score of 3 to 2. Many disinterested witnesses also claimed 
that final tinie shcuild ha\-e been called some mon';;nts before 
Cutler scored their last goal which tied the score. 

The referee, Mr. R. Paulding, of Berkeley School, also 
president of tlie Interscholastic League, apiioiiite;! ?\lnrch 31st, 
at the Clermont Rink, for the play-off of the tie. Tlie ("utler 
team refused to appear at the time set and ]\Iontedair sh.ould 
have been awarded the championship liy default, but certain 
wire-pulling caused either a tie vote or prevented a quorum 



46 ICE HOCKEY. 

being present at any of the numerous meetings called for the 
settlement of the affair at the request of the Montclair 
delegates. 

The personnel of the teams composing the Interstate Inter- 
scholastic Ice Hockey League last season was as follows : 

Montclair High School — Gustave A. Hornfeck, Captain; 
A. Griffen, Chas. Phillips, Al. Lindley, W. McBurney, C. 
Anderson, Edward Gary and Reginald Trautschold. 

Cu ILER School — Livingston, Captain ; Homans, Little, 
Dickinson, Henderson, Wright, Delafield, Gunther and Inman. 

De La Salle School — McCabe, Brennan, O'Byrnc, Dwyer, 
Robbins, Corrigan and Tilford. 

Berkeley School — Paulding, Captain; Arthur, Rice, Pell, 
Bien, Gulden, Procter, Huntington, Thomas and Granl^erry. 

St. Austin's School — Scofield, V. Scott, B. Scott, Wall 
Lindsay, Heineken, Bonner, Taylor, Pope, Thomas, Dearborn 
and Lawrence. 

Another young team which made an enviable ice hockey 
record was that representing Lawrenceville School of Law- 
renceville, N. J. Though their competition was confined to 
three outside matches, the results stand as good vouchers of 
their ability to cope with any school team in the country. 
Their record follows : 

Lawrenceville School Ice Hockey Team Record — Season 
OF 1896-97. 

Date Where Played Goals Goals 

Jan. 13 .Lawrenceville, N. J L'ville Sch., 2 Princeton Univ. (scrub) 

Feb. 16. .Lawrenceville, N. I " " 8 Rutgers Collea:e 

Mch. 6.. St. Nicholas Rink, N.Y.. " " 2 Cutler SchooL 1 

These players made up the Lawrenceville School te.im : 
Rol)erts, Captain ; Cleveland, C. Dodds, S. Dodds, Kafer, 
Little, Brower and Childs. 

Columbia Grammar School of New York and St. Paul's 
School of Long Island j^layed several good ice hockey matches 
during the winter, and should have been members of the Inter- 
state Interscholastic Ice Hockey League. The latter's players 
were as follows : Cooke, Beyers, Coxe, Hunterson, Levey, 
Alexander and Illingworth. 



ICE HOCKEY. 47 



CANADIAN ICE HOCKEY. 

Throughout Canada ice hockey is as common as base ball in 
the States. Nearly every town, social club, college and school 
has its representative team, and many banks and business 
houses are represented as well. Dozens of leagues have been 
organized for years, and each winter they promote series of 
competitions which keep the sport booming. 

Many towns and cities in Canada have a "Victoria" hockey 
club, the name being so commonly popular and adopted by so 
many different clubs that it is necessary to mention their 
locality in order to distinguish one from the other. 

The larger leagues and associations offer trophies for compe- 
tition to junior and intermediate teams as well as to the senior 
teams representing the clubs or organizations composing the 
body. This is done to develop the young players, and the scheme 
works to perfection. No club is allowed to compete for the 
senior chamt. lonship until it has won the intermediate cham- 
pionship, and likew-ise a club must first win the junior series 
before being eligible to compete with the intermediates. Also, 
no man may play in the intermediate series who has taken part 
in more than one senior match in the same season, and no man 
is eligible to play in the junior series Mdio has played in more 
than one intermediate match or in any senior match during the 
same season. 

AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION OF CANADA. 
The most prominent league in existence is the Amateur 
Hockey Association of Canada, composed of these clubs : 
Victoria Hockey Club of Montreal, Ottawa Hockey Club, 
Montreal Hockey Club, Quebec Hockey Club and Shamrock 
Hockey Club of Montreal. 



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The Montreal Hockey Club won the championship of the 
Amateur Hochey Association of Canacha in iSSS, and Iield it 
for eight consecutive years, -when tlie Victoria Club A^restcil 
the coveted title from tliem. 

The Victorias of Montreal are the present champions of their 
association, and also hold the Stanley Cup, emblematic of the 
ice hockey cliampionship (f the AAorld. The clubs of this 
Association jilay a series of home matcJies between fanuarv 1st 
and March 8lh of each year, the \\ inner of the mo^t matches 
being declared the cliampions. The senior series of 1897 
resulted as follows : 



Amateur Hockey Associatiox of Canada — Rkc 
Senior [Matches — Season of 1S97. 



Victoria. . . 
Ottawa . . . 
Montreal . 
Quebep . . 
Shamrock , 



Defeats. 



1 






1 
1 





-^ 


1 


£ ■ 

1 ; 


1 




3 


1 





From this it vrill l)e seen that the \'ictoiia teai^i lust br.t one 
match, that l)eing to Ottawa. The champion team \\ as made 
up as follows : M. Grant, Captain; Robert AJacdoucrall, Ilort- 
land Macclougall, Robert Lewis, Shirle}' Davidson, Harold 
Henderson, Ernest McLea, Drinkwater, II. ^dolson and David 
Gillellan. 

A. II. A. OF C. — Intermediate Series. 
In the 1897 series for the interm.ediate championsldp of this 
league five teams competed — from the same clubs composing 
the senior series. The result v.-as a tie for first place ijctween 
the Montreal and Shamrock clal)s. The first match jjlaved to 
decide the tie resulted in an even score, but the second proved 
Montreal the intermediate champions. 




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ICE HOCKEY. 51 

The senior teams of the Montreal and Shamrock clubs made 
a tour through the States last winter and played the following 
exhibition matches : 

Date Where Played Goals Goals 

Mch. 8.. Balto. (Md.) Rink.. Montreal H,C.. 4 Shamrock H. C 4 

Mch. 9.. " " .. Montreal H.C.. 8 Shamrock H. C ....3 

Mch. 9.. " " .. Montreal H. C .5 All-Balto. (picked team") 3 

Mch. 10.. " " ..Montreal H.C.. 3 ShamrockH.C 2 

Mch. 10.. " " ..Shamrock H.C. 3 All-Balto. (picked team) 

Mch. 11.. Clermont Rink Montreal H. C. . 3 ShamrockH.C 2 

Mch. 13.. " " ....Shamrock H. C. 3 Montreal H. C 1 

The Montreal team included : H. C. Collins, Wm. Murphy, 
M. Grant, N. Dawes, A. Hough, D. Gillellan and H. Baird. 
R. Wall, L. Belcourt, J. Stephens, W. Dobby, D. Brown, 
Doblitz, C. Farrell and Pagnuelo composed the Shamrocks. 

MANITOBA AND NORTHWEST AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION. 

As regards playing strength and prominence the Manitoba 
and Northwest Amateur Hockey Association of Winnipeg 
ranks second, though the wonderful skill displayed by their 
champion Victoria team is probably on a par with that of the 
Victorias of Montreal. This fact was proven when these teams 
met in competition for the Stanley Cup and championship of 
the world. 

But two clubs entered the senior competition in this associa- 
tion last winter, the Victoria Hockey Club of Winnipeg, who 
have held the championship of their association for the past 
six years, and the Winnipeg Hockey Club, the former club 
winning four of a series of five matches played, as follows : 

Manitoba and Northwest Amateur Hockey Association 
— Record c>f Senior Matches — Season of 1896-97. 

Goals . Goals 

Victoria Hockey Club 3 Winnipeg: Hockey Club 2 

3 ^" " 

7 " " 4 

6 " " 7 

4 " " 3 

The players making up the champion Victoria team Avere as 
follows : Armytage, Captain ; Bain, Campbell, Howard, John- 
ston, Flett and Merritt. 




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ICE HOCKEY. 53 

M. AND N. A. H. A. — Intermediate Series. 
Four clubs composed the intermediate series last winter, viz., 
Winnipeg Hockey Club, Victoria Hockey Club of Winnipeg, 
Portage la Prairie Hockey Club and St. Johns Hockey Club. 
Their home-and-home matches resulted as follows : 

^Manitoba and Northwest Amateur Hockey Association 
— Record of Intermediate Matches — Season of '96-97. 

Goals Goals 

Victoria H. C 3 Winnipeg H. C 2 

Portage la Prairie H. C 7 St. Johns H. C 6 

Winnipeg H. C 3 Portage la Prairie H. C 2 

Victoria H, C 5 St. Johns H. C 

Winnipeg H.C 8 St. Johns H. C 2 

Victoria H. C 7 St. Johns H. C 6 

Portage la Prairie H. C 5 Victoria H. C ■. 4 

Winnipeg H.C 5 Victoria H. C 4 

Portage la Prairie H. C 6 St._ Johns H. C , 3 

Portage la Prairie H. C 5 Winnipeg H. C 4 

Winnipeg H.C 7 St.JohnsH.C. 3 

Victoria H. C 4 Portage la Prairie H. C 2 

SUMMARY BY MATCHES. Won Lost 

Winnipeg H. C 4 2 

Victoria H. C 4 2 

Portage la Prairie H. C :. 4 2 

St.JohnsH.C 6 

SUMMARY BY GOALS. Opponents 

Scored Scored 

WinnipeeH. C 20 19 

Victoria H.C 27 20 

Portage la Prairie H. C 27 24 

St.JohnsH.C ...: 20 40 

ONTARIO HOCKEY ASSOCIATION. 

The third league in importance in Canadian hockey circles 
is the Ontario Hockey Association, which is centered aljout 
Toronto. The meml)ers of this body compete annually (during 
the months of January and February), by tie matches, for the 
possession of tlie Crosby Challenge Cup. 

The fie niatches, which are arranged under the direction of 
the Executive, are simply the pairing off of the several teams 
entered, exactly as the entries for a lawn tennis tournament in 
this country are drawn, for the preliminary or first round of 
play. Home-and-home matches are played to decide each tie, 



54 ICE HOCKEY. 

and a majority of the goals scored in both matches determines 
the winner of the tie. The winners of the first round play off 
their ties, and so on until one club or team wins the final tie 
and championship. 

This method was adopted by this league because its members 
were so widely scattered, and much expense and traveling is 
thus saved. These tie matches are arranged openly (not drawn 
at random from a blind pool), and neighboring teams are 
usually paired together. The list of competitors in the final 
ties and the champions for the last seven years in this league is 
as follows : 

Champions of the Ontario Hockey Association — 
Senior Series. 

Goals 

1891 Ottawa H. C defeated Queens University 4 to 1 

1892....0ttawaH. C " Osgoode Hall 10 to 4 

1893 Ottawa H. C " Queens University 6 to 3 

1894 .. Osgoode Hall " Queens University 3 to 2 

1895 . Queens University " Trinity University 17 to 3 

1896 .... Queens University " Stratford H._ C 12 to 3 

1897. .. .Queens University " Toronto University' 12 to 7 

The senior series of 1897 resulted as follows : 

Ontario Hockey Association — Record of Senior 
Matches — Season of 1897. 

first round. Goals 

Toronto University defeated Stratford H. C 9 to 2 

Stratford H. C " Toronto University. ..... 4 to 2 

Toronto University v/ins 11 to 6 

Toronto A. C... : defeated Trinity University 6 to 4 

Toronto A. C " Trinity University 3 to 2 

Toronto A. C. wins 9 to 6 

Toronto A. C defeated Osgoode Hall 7 to 1 

Osgoode Hall " Toronto A. C 4 to 2 



Toronto A. C wins 9 to 5 

Peterboro H. C defeated Royal Military College... 8 to 3 

Peterboro H. C " Royal Military College. .. 3 to 

Peterboro H. C. wins 11 to 3 



ICE HOCKEY. 55 

SECOND ROUND, 

Toronto University defeated Toronto A. C 2 to 

Toronto University " Toronto A. C 5 to 1 

Toronto University wins 7 to 1 

Queens University defeated Peterboro H. C 6 to 4 

Queens University " Peterboro H. C by default 

Queens University wins 6 to 4 

FINAL ROUND. 

Queens University defeated Toronto University 6 to 1 

Queens University tied Toronto University 6 to 6 

Queens University wins Senior Championship 12 to 7 

As shown above, the famous Queens University team of 
Kingston, Ontario, again turned up winners of the senior 
championship, a title which they have now held for the past 
three years, or ever since they have played under the very 
capable generalship of Dr. J. J. Harty, one of the most able 
hockeyists ever produced by Canada. This famous captain is 
residing in New York City this winter, and will undoubtedly 
be seen as a member of the St. Nicholas Skating Club's hockey 
team during the season. Previous to becoming champions of 
their league in i8g5, the Queens University team figured in 
the final tie match three out of four consecutive seasons. 

The personnel of the championship team of 1897 was as fol- 
lows: Dr. J. J. Harty, Captain; Guy Curtis, Merrill, Dalton, 
Hiscock, Weatherhead and Brock. 

This team, with the addition of two graduates, Cunningham 
and Waldron, made a tour to New York and Brooklyn last 
winter and figured in the following exhibition matches: 

Date. Where Plaj^ed. Goals. Goals. 
Jan. 23. .St. Nicholas Rink. .Queens University.. 3 Yale University. . 
Jan. 25.. St. Nicholas Rii.k.. " ..1 St. Nicholas S. C. . 1 
Jan. 26.. Clermont Rink " ..6 Montclair A. C 1 

O. H. A. — Intermediate Series. 
For the intermediate honors of the Ontario Hockey Associa- 
tion last season fifteen teams competed, the Berlin Hockey 
Club winning after a long struggle. The ties and winners 
were as follows; 



56 ice hockey. 

Ontario Hockey Association — Record of Intermediate 

Matches — Season of 1897. 

first round. 

Toronto A. C. defeated Osgoode Hall; Victoria H. C. of Toronto defeated 
Osgoode Hall (by default); Victoria H. C. of Toronto defeated Toronto A. 
C. Victoria H. C. winneis of tie.' 

Brampton H. C. defeated Ayr H C; Berlin H. C. defeated Ayr H. C; 
Berlin H, C. defeated Brampton H. C. Berlin H. C winners of tie. 

Orillia H. C. defeated Colllngwood H. C; B.arrie H. C defeated Orlllia 
H. C. Barrie H. C. winners of tie. 

Sarina H. C. defeated Petrolia H. C; London H. C. defeated Petrolia H. 
C; London H. C. defeated Sarina H. C. London H. C. winners of tie. 

Peterboro H. C. defeated Norwood H. C. ; Frontenac H. C. defeated 
Peterboro H. C. Frontenac H. C. winners of tie. 

SECOND ROUND. 

Berlin H. C. defeated London H. C; Berlin H. C. defeated Barrie H. C. 
Berlin H. C. winners of tie. 

Frontenac H. C. defeated Victoria K. C. of Toronto (bj' default). 

FINAL KiniND. 

Berlin H. C. defeated Frontenac H. C, 3 to 0. Berlin H. C. winning 
Intermediate Championship. 

O. H. A.— Junior Series. 
Nineteen teams entered tlie Junior series, with results as 
follows: 

Ontario Hockey Association — Record of Junior 

Matches — Season of 1897. 

first round. 

Peterboro H. C. defeated Norwood H. C, 8 to 3; Norwood H. C. defeated 
Peterboro H. C, 4 to 2. Peterboro H. C. winners of tie, 10 to 7. 

Frontenac H. C. defeated Queens Uni\'ersity. Frontenac H. C. winners 
of tie. 

Vv^ellington H. C. defeated Osgoode Hall. Wellington H. C. winners of tie. 

Upper Canada College defeated Trinitj^ University'; Victoria H. C. of 
Toronto defeated Toronto University; Upper Canada College defeated Vic- 
toria H. C. of Toronto. Upper Canada College winners of tie. 

Guelph H. C. defeated Gait H. C; Berlin H. C. defeated Gait H. C; 
Guelph H. C. defeated Berlin H. C. Guelph H. C. winners of tie. 

Brampton H. C. defeated Victoria H. C. of Hamilton (by default). 
Brampton' H. C. winners of tie. 

London H. C. defeated St. Mary's H. C. London H. C. winners of tie. 

Listowell H. C. defeated Stratford H. C. Listowell H. C. winners of tie. 



ICE H(1CKEY. 57 

SECOND ROUND. 

Peterboro H. C. defeated Froiitenac H. C. Peterljoro H. C. winners of tie. 

Wellington H. C. defeated • Upper Canada College. Wellington H. C. 
winners of tie. 

Guelph H. C. defeated Brampton H. C, 9 to 2. Guelph H. C. winners 
of tie. 

Listowell H. C. defeated London H. C. Listowell H. C. winners of tie. 

THIRD ROUND. 
Wellington H. C. defeated Peterboro H. C, 6 to 3. Wellington H. C. 
winners of tie. 

Guelph K. C. defeated Listowell H. C. Guelph H. C. winners of tie. 

FINAL ROUND. 

Wellington H. C defeated Guelph H. C 6 to 3 

Guelph H. C " Wellington H. C 5 to 4 

Wellington H. C. winning Junior Championship 10 to 8 

THE STANLEY CUR 

The Stanley Cup, which is emblematic of the ice hockey 
championship of the world, was presented for competition by 
Lord Stanley, late Governor-General of Canada. 

Up to February, l8g6, this championship trophy had ahv'ay.s 
been held by the team winning the senior championship of the 
Amateur Hockey League of Canada. During the month 
named the Victoria Hockey Club of Winnipeg, champions of 
the Manitoba and Northwest Amateur Hockey Association, 
challenged the holders of this cup, the Victoria Hockey Club 
of ^tlontreal, and as a result one of the greatest exhibitions of 
ice hockey ever played took place in Montreal on February 14, 
iSg6. 

As may be imagined, the undertaking of such a task by the 
Victorias of Winnipeg was a matter of no small account, when 
it is borne in mind that the distance from Winnipeg to ]\Iontreal 
is something over 1,500 miles, and the tiip (over Canadian 
railways) occupies the greater part of three days. That this 
team was probably the greatest and most skilful tliat ever 
played the game is proved by the fact that after a most trying 
journey and before a wildly excited assemblage of thousands 



58 ICE HOCKEY. 

of bitter enemies, they defeated the renowned and supposed 
invincible Victoria Hockey Club of Montreal by a score of two 
goals to none. The teams lined up for this memorable match 
as follows : 

Victorias of Winxtpeg Positions Victorias of Montreal 

Merritt Goal Jones 

Fleet Point Henderson 

Higginbotham Cover-Point Grant, Captain 

Armytage, Captain \ I Macdougall 

Bain ( Forwards ) Wa lace 

Howard ( 1 McLea 

Campbell ) ' Davidson 

The two goals were scored by the Winnipeg team during the 
first twenty minutes of play, by such wonderful combination 
and team work as had rareJy been exhibited to Montreal 
audiences. Captain Armytage then decided to save his men 
until further effort was necessary, and for the remainder of the 
hour of playing time worked his team wholly on the defensive. 
It may be understood what a marvelous defense Winnipeg had 
in Higginbotham, PTeet and Merritt, from the fact that during 
this last forty minutes, dozens of fierce attempts by the Montreal 
" Vies " to break through and score proved fruitless. Higgin- 
botham was the hero of the match, and his brilliant work 
caused'him to be pronounced by unbiased critics the greatest 
cover-point that ever played ice hockey. Time after time his 
wonderful lifting and dribbling sent the puck far from his 
goal and practically caused the downfall of the Victorias of 
Montreal. 

*-* * * * * * * 

Last winter (during December, 1896) the Victoria Hockey ♦ 
Club of Montreal, ex-holders of the Stanley Cup, issued a 1 
challenge to the Victoria Hockey Club of Winnipeg for the 
possession of the trophy, which the latter club had so gallantly 
won the winter previous. The trustees, of the cup ordered the 
Winnipeg "Vies" to defend it and their title of Ice Hockey 
Champions of the World, on the evening of December 30, 1 8g6. 

The match was played in Winnipeg, and after a very close 
and highly exciting contest the Montreal team regained the 
cup and honors, winning by a score of six goals to five. Like 



ICE HOCKEY. 59 

the previous contest for the Stanley Cup, this was a wonderful 
exhibition of the game, fast and clean from start to finish 
and marlced by the accurate shooting for goals and combination 
work of both forward lines, which was simply grand, being 
remarkably rapid and sure. 

The very close score would prove the claim of the Winnipeg 
team that their defeat was caused by their greatly weakened 
defense, owing to the loss of the valuable services of the great 
Higginbotham, who was accidentally killed in September, 1896, 
by a fall from a horse. Johnston, who filled this renowned 
cover-point's position, played as well and sure as could be 
expected, but of course lacked the long experience of Higgin- 
botham. The players and their positions were as follows : 

Victorias of Winnipeg Positions Victorias of Montreal 

Merritt Goal Lewis 

Fleet Point Henderson 

Johnston Cover-Point Grant, Captain 

Armytage, Captain ^ I Macdougall 

Bain f Forwards J Drinkwater 

Howard C "j McLea 

Campbell ) \ Davidson 

The Winnipeg team had the best of the match in the first 
half and seemed sure winners, the half ending four goals to 
two in their favor. They shot three goals before the visiting 
team got their eyes open, the first being scored in six minutes 
of play, the second in two and the third in ten. Then, after 
five minutes, Montreal scored her first goal, adding another in. 
six minutes, and, just as half time was called, the Winnipegs 
scored their fourth tally. 

The forwards of the home team had played perfectly, but 
the pace had been too much for them, and during the last half 
they showed signs of weakness due to over-training. On the 
contrary, the Montreal players seemed stronger, and by bril- 
liant rushes of their forwards soon tied the score. A fierce 
struggle followed and the excitement was at fever heat. Finally 
one of the" Montreal forwards secured the puck in the open and 
made a rush the entire length of the rink, dodging three oppo- 
nents and scoring a beautiful goal, making the score five to 
four in his team's favor. 



6o t(:ii iiocKEY. 

Tlie Winnipeg ''Vies" responded to the great support of 
their admirers and, pulling themselves together for a final 
effort, plaj^ed fast and furious hockey, and, after a grand piece 
of combination play, scored a goal, which again tied the score. 

With but five minutes' playing time remaining the excite- 
ment grew intense. Winnipeg's great effort in scoring their 
last goal told upon them, and as they faced off for the finish 
they presented a much worn appearance. Montreal went at 
the game with renewed effort and scored the winning goal after 
playing four minutes, making the final score six to five, and 
the world's champio'iship was once more won and lost, and the 
Stanley Cup, so grandly Avon by the Winnipeg "Vies" the 
previous season, went back to its former stand in the club 
rooms of the Victoria Hockey Club of Montreal. 



Ice hockey. 6t 



PLACING AND CHAMPIONSHIP RULES 
OF ICE HOCKEY 

OF THE 

Amateur RocKey Eeaaue of Hew yorK 

Amended November, 1897. 

ICE HOCKEY RULES, 

RULE I. 
Team. — A team shall be composed of seven players, \\\\o 
shall be bona-Jide members of the club they represent. 

RULE JI. 
Game. — The game shall be commenced and renewed l.'v a 
face in the centre of the rink. Rink shall lie at least 112 fc-et 
by 58 feet. 

RULE IIL 

Goals. — A goal is placed in the middle of each gf^al line, 
composed of two upright posts, four feet in height, placeil six 
feet apart, and at least five feet from the end of the ice. The 
goal posts shall be firmly fixed. In the event of a goal j^ost 
being displaced or broken, the Referee shall blow liis whistle, 
and the game shall not proceed until the goal is replaced. 

RULE IV. 

Face. — The puck shall be faced by being placed between the 
sticks of two opponents, and the Referee then calling play. 

RULE A\ 

Match. — Two halves of twenty minutes each, exclusive of 
stoppages, with an intermission of ten minutes, between, will 



62 ICE HOCKEY. 

be the time allowed for games. A game will be decided by 
the team scoring the greatest number of goals during that 
time. In case of a tie after playing the specified time, play 
will continue for ten minutes more, when, in the event of the 
score still being even, another game will be played at a time 
and place mutually agreed upon, such time to be prior to the 
next scheduled game. Goals shall be changed after each half. 

RULE VI. 

Change of Players. — No change of players shall be made 
after a game has commenced, except for reasons of accidents 
or injury during the game. 

RULE VII. 
Should any player meet with an accident during a game and 
be compelled to leave the ice, his side shall have the option of 
putting on a spare man from the reserve to equalize the teams. 
In the event of any dispute between the captains as to such 
player's fitness to continue the game, the matter shall at once 
be decided by the Referee. 

RULE VIII. 

Stoppages. — Should a game be temporarily stopped by the 
infringement of any of the rules, the captain of the opposite 
team may claim that the puck be taken back and a face take 
place where it was last played from before such infringement 
occurred. 

RULE IX. 

Off-Side. — When a player hits the puck, any one of the same 
side who at such moment of hitting is nearer the opponent's 
goal line is off-side, and may not touch the puck himself or in 
any way whatever prevent any other player from doing so 
until the puck has been played. A player must always be on 
his own side of the puck. 

RULE X. 

Knocking on. Charging, Etc. — The puck may be stopped, but 
not carried or knocked on, by any part of the body. No player 



ICE HOCKEY. 63 

shall raise his stick above the shoulder. Charging from 
behind, tripping, collaring, kicking or cross-checking shall 
not be allowed, and the Referee must rule off the ice, for any 
time in his discretion, a player who, in his opinion, has offended 
deliberately against the above rule. 

.RULE XI. 
Puck Off Ice. — When the puck goes off the ice behind the 
goal line, or a foul occurs behind the goal line, the puck shall 
be brought out by the Referee to a point five yards in front of 
the goal line, at right angles from the point at which it left the 
ice, and there faced. When the puck goes off the ice at the 
side it shall be similarly faced three yards from the side. 

RULE XIL 

Goal-keeper. — The goal-keeper must not, during play, lie, 
kneel or sit upon the ice, but must maintain a standing position. 

RULE XIII. 
Score. — A goal shall be scored when the puck shall have 
passed between the goal posts from in front and below an 
imaginary line across the top of posts. 

RULE XIV. 
Sticks. — Hockey sticks shall be made of wood, with no 
harder substance attached thereto, and shall not be more than 
three inches wide at any point. 

RULE XV. 
Puck. — The puck must be made of vulcanized rubber, one 
inch thick all through and three inches in diameter. 

RULE XVI. 
Officials. — The captains of the contesting teams shall agree 
upon a Referee, a Timekeeper and two Umpires, one to be 
stationed behind each goal, which positions shall not be 
changed during a game except by mutual consent. 

RULE XVII. 

Referee. — All disputes on the ice shall be settled by the 
Referee, and his decision shall be final. 



64 . ICE HOCKEY. 

RULE XVIII. 
Umpires. — All questions as to goals shall be settled by the 
Umpires, and their decisions shall be final. 

CHAMPIONSHIP RULES, 

RULE I. 
The season shall l)e between December i and April I. 

RULE II. 

The championship shall be decided by a series of games, a 
schedule of which shall be arranged at the annual meeting. 
The club winning the most games shall be declared champions. 

RULE III. 
All championship games shall be played on covered rinks, 
arranged for at the annual convention. 

RULE IV. 
The League shall offer a championship trophy, the winning 
club to hold same and be recognized as champions. 

RULE V. 
Any team making default shall forfeit its right to compete 
for the championship for that season, and all games played by 
defaulting team shall be declared off. 

RULE VI. 
A Referee should be decided upon by the captains forty- 
eight hours before a game. 

RULE VII. 

It shall be the duty of the captains of the contesting teams 
to hand to the Referee the names of the players for each game 
before the start. It shall be the duty of the Referee to for- 
ward to the Secretary of the League the score of each game, 
with the names of players and umpires, 



ICE HOCKEY. 65 

RULE VIII. 

Captains before a game shall toss for choice of goals. 

RULE IX. 

A player must be a bona-fide member of the club he repre- 
sents at least thirty (30) clays before he is eligible to compete 
in championship games. No player shall play in an Amateur 
Hockey League schedule game who, during the then current 
season, has played with another club in a recognized Hockey 
Association, without special permission of th'i Executive. 

RULE X. 
All clubs must register with the Secretary of the League the 
colors of their playing uniform, and no two clubs shall be per- 
mitted to have uniforms of the same color. The order of being 
admitted to League membership shall determine choice of 
colors. 



66 ICE HOCKEY 



LAWS AND CHAMPIONSHIP RULES 
OF ICE HOCKEY 

AMENDED DECEMBER, J896, 

BY THE 

JImmeur |)ocKey dissociation of CmaA^ 



LAWS OF ICE HOCKEY, 

RULE I. 
Team. — A team shall be composed of seven players, who 
shall be bona-fide members of the clubs they represent. No 
player shall be allowed to play on more than one team in the 
same series during a season, except in a case of bona-fide 
change of vesidence, 

RULE II. 

Game. — The game shall be commenced and renewed by a 
face in the centre of the rink. Rink must be at least II2 feet 

by 53 feet. 

RULE III. 

Goals — Goals shall be six feet wide and four feet high. 
RULE IV. 

Face. — The puck shall be faced by being placed between the 
sticks of two opponents, and the Referee then calling "play." 
The goals shall be placed at least ten feet from the edge of 

the ice. 

RULE V. 

Match. — Two half hours, with an intermission of ten min- 
utes between, will be the time allowed for matches, but no 



ICE HOCKEY. 67 

stops of more than fifteen minutes will be allowed. A match 
wall be decided by the team v/inning the greatest number of 
*games during that time. In case of a tie after playing the 
specified two half hours, play will continue until one side 
secures a *game, unless otherwise agreed upon between the 
captains before the match. Goals shall be changed after each 
half hour. 

RULE VI. 

Change of Players. — No change of players shall be made 
after a match has commenced, except for reasons of accidents 
or injury during the game. 

RULE VII. 

Should any player be injured during a match and compelled 
to leave the ice, his side shall have the option of putting on a 
spare man from the reserve to equalize the teams. However, 
should a player be injured during the second half, the captain 
of the opposing team shall have the option of dropping a man 
to equalize the teams or allow his opponents to put on a spare 
man. In the event of any dispute between the captains as to 
the injured player's fitness to continue the game, the matter 
shall at once be decided by the Referee. 

RULE VIIL 

Stoppages. — Should a game be temporarily stopped by the 
infringement of any of the rules, the captain of the opposite 
team may claim that the puck be taken back and a face take 
place where it was last played from before such infringement 
occurred. 

RULE IX. 

Off- Side. — When a player hits the puck, any one of the same 
side who at such moment of hitting is nearer the opponent's 
goal line is out of play, and may not touch the puck himself or 

* Note by Editor. — The word game or games in the instances thus 
-marked means goal or goals, being a common expression among Canadian 
hockeyists for what Americans term a goal or score. 



6S iCE HOCKEY. 

in any way whatever prevent any other player from doing so 
until the puck has been played. A player must always be on 
his own side of the puck. 

RULE X. 
Knocking on, Chaj'ging, Etc. — The puck may be stopped, but 
not carried or knocked on, by any part of the body. No player 
shall raise his stick above his shoulder except in lifting the 
puck. Charging from behind, tripping, collaring, kicking or 
shinning shall not be allowed, and any player after having been 
warned by the Referee, he may rule the player off the ice for 
that *game or match, or for such portion of actual playing time 
as he may deem fit. 

RULE XI. 

Fuck Off Ice. — When the puck goes off the ice or a foul 
occurs behind the goals it shall be taken by the Referee to five 
yards at right angles from the goal line and there faced. When 
the puck goes off the ice at the sides it shall be taken by the 
Referee to five yards at right angles from the boundary line 
and there faced. 

RULE XIL 

Goal-keeper. — The goal-keeper must not, during play, lie, 
kneel or sit upon the ice, but must maintain a standing position. 

RULE xin. 

Score. — Goal shall be scored when the puck shall have 
passed. between the goal posts from in front and below an 
imaginary line across the top of posts. 

RULE XIV. 

Sticks. — Hockey sticks shall not be more than three inches 

wide at any part. 

RULE XV. 

Fuck. — The puck must be made of vulcanized rubber, one 
inch thick all through and three inches in diameter. 

RULE XVI. 
Officials. — The captains of the contesting teams shall agree 
upon a Referee and two Umpires (one to be stationed behind 



ICE HOCKEY. 69 

each goal), which positions shall not be changed during a match, 
and two Timekeepers. In the event of the captains failing to 
agree on Umpires and Timekeepers the Referee shall appoint 
same. 

RULE XVII. 

Referee. — All disputes on the ice shall be settled by the 
Referee, and his decision shall be final. 
RULE XVIIL 

Umpires. — All questions as to *games shall be settled by the 
Umpires, and their decisions shall be final. In the event of 
any dispute as to the decision of an Umpire the Referee shall 
have power to remove and replace him. 

CHAMPIONSHIP RULES. 
RULE I. 
The season shall be from the ist of January to the 8th of 
March, both days inclusive. 

RULE II. 
The championship shall be decided by a series of games, a 
schedule of which shall be drawn up by one delegate from 
each club at the annual convention. The club winning the 
most matches shall be declared champions. 
RULE III. 
All championship matches shall be played on rinks arranged 
for at the annual convention. 

RULE IV. 
No club shall be allowed to compete for the Senior Cham- 
pionship until it has won the Intermediate Championship and 
only by the unanimous vote of all the clubs then comprising 
the series. The following clubs are at present qualified to 
compete for the Senior Championship, viz.: Quebec, Ottawa, 
Shamrock, Victoria and Montreal. 

RULE V. 
The Association shall offer a championship trophy, the win- 
ning club to hold same and be recognized as Champions of 



70 ICE HOCKEY. 

Canada. The trophy shall he delivered to the winning club 
within seven days after the close of the season. 
RULE VI. 

Any club holding the championship for three years in suc- 
cession shall become absolute owners of the championship trophy. 
RULE VII. 

Any team making default shall forfeit its right to compete 
for the championship for that season, in the class in which it 
is entered, and be liable to a fine of $ioo, unless good reasons 
can be given for defaulting. All matches played by defaulting 
team shall be declared off. 

RULE VIII. 

A man who has played in more than two Senior Champion- 
ship matches in one season shall not be eligible to play for the 
Intermediate Championship in the same season. 
RULE IX. 

In the event of any two clubs failing to agree upon a Referee 
four days before a match, the President shall call a meeting of 
delegates (one from each club), to be held in Montreal, with 
the view of choosing a Referee for the match in question. 
Such delegates shall have no other power than to select such 
Referee for the match named. 

RULE X. 

It shall be the duty of the captains of the contesting teams 
to hand to the Referee the names of the players for each match 
previoj-is to the start, on forms supplied by the Secretary of the 
Association. The Referee shall then fill in the date of the 
match, names of contesting clubs, the score at the finish, with 
the names of Umpires, the whole duly signed by himself and 
forwarded to the Secretary of the Association. 

Note by Editor. — The playing rules governing the matches 
played by the Manitoba and Northwest Amateur Hockey Asso- 
ciation are practically the same as those used by the Amateur 
Hockey Association of Canada, differing only in arrangement 
and slight wording changes. 



ICE HOCKEY. 71 



RULES OF ICE HOCKEY 

OF THE 

ONTARIO HOCKEY ASSOCIATION 

As Adopted December 5, 1896. 



RULES OF THE GAME 

RULE I. 
Game. — The game is played on ice by teams of seven on 
each side, with a puck made of vulcanized rubber, one inch 
thick all through and three inches in diameter. 

RULE II. 
Sticks. — Hockey sticks shall not be more than three inches 
wide at any part and not more than thirteen inches long in 
the blade. 

RULE III. 

Goals. — A goal is placed in the middle of each goal line, 
composed of two upright posts four feet in height, placed six 
feet apart and at least five feet from the end of the ice. The 
goal po.-i,3 shall be firmly fixed. In the event of a goal post 
being displaced or broken, the referee shall blow his whistle 
and the game shall not proceed until the post is replaced. 

RULE IV. 

Match. — Each side shall have a captain (a member of his 
team) who, before the match, shall toss for choice of goals. 
Each side shall play an equal time from each end. The dura- 
tion of championship matches shall not be less than one hour, 



72 ICE HOCKEY. 

exclusive of stoppages. The team scoring the greater number 
of goals in that time shall be declared the winner of the match. 
If at the end of that time the game is a draw, ends shall be 
changed and the game continued for ten minutes, each side 
playing five minutes from each end with a rest of five minutes 
between, and if neither side has then scored a majority of 
*games, similar periods of ten minutes shall be played in the 
same way until one side shall have scored a majority of goals. 

RULE V. 

Timekeepers. — Timekeepers shall be appointed, one by each 
captain, to keep the time during match. 

RULE VI. 
Referee. — There shall be only one referee for a match, and 
in no case shall he belong to either of the competing clubs. 
He shall enforce the rules, adjudicate upon disputes or cases 
unprovided for by rule, appoint the goal umpires, control the 
timekeepers, keep the score, and at the conclusion of the match 
declare the result. The puck shall be considered in play until 
the referee stops the game, which he may do at any time, and 
which he must do at once when any irregularity of play occurs, 
by sounding a whistle. His decision shall be final. 

RULE VII. 
Score. — A goal shall be scored when the puck shall have 
passed .bet ween the goal posts from in front and below an 
imaginary line drawn across the tops of the posts. 

RULE VIII. 
Goal U77ipires. — Goal umpires shall inform the referee when 
a goal is scored. Their decisions shall be final. 

RULE IX. 
Face. — The game shall be started and renewed by the referee 
calling " play," after having placed the puck on its larger sur- 
face on the ice, between the sticks of the two players, one from 

* See note by editor on page 67, 



ICE HOCKEY. 73 

each team, who are to face it. After a goal has been scored 
the puck shall be placed on the centre of the ice. 

RULE X. 

Off-Side. — A player shall always be on his side of the puck. 
A player is off-side when he is in front of the puck, or when 
the puck has been hit, touched or is being run with, by any of 
his own side behind him {i. e., between himself and his own 
goal line). A player being off-side is put on-side when the 
puck has been hit by, or has touched the dress or person of 
any player of the opposite side, or when one of his own side 
has run in front of him, either with the puck or having played 
it when behind him. If a player when off-side plays the puck, 
or annoys or obstructs an opponent, the puck shall be faced 
where it was last played before the off-side play occurred. 

RULE XL 

Knocking-on. — The puck may not be stopped with the hand 
except by the goal-keeper (see Rule XIV,), but maybe stopped, 
but not carried or knocked on by any other part of the body. 

RULE XII, 

Charging, Tripping, Etc.~^o player shall raise his stick 
above his shoulder. Charging from behind, tripping, collaring, 
kicking, cross-checking or pushing shall not be allowed. And 
the referee must rule off the ice, for any time in his discretion, 
a player Avho, in the opinion of the referee, has deliberately 
offended against the above rule. 

RULE XIII. 

When the Puck Leaves the Ice. — When the puck goes off the 
ice behind the goal line it shall be brought out by the referee 
to a point five yards in front of the goal line, on a line at right 
angles thereto, from the point at which it left the ice, and 
there faced. When the puck goes off the ice at the side, it 
shall be similarly faced three yards from the side. 



74 ICE HOCKEY. 

RULE XIV. 

Goal-keeper. — The goal-keeper must not during play, lie, sit 
or kneel upon the ice; he may, when in goal, stop the pv ck 
with his hands, but shall not throw or hold it. He may wear 
pads, i)ut must not wear a garment sucli as would give him 
undue assistance in keeping goal. The referee must rule off 
the ice, for any time in his discretion, a player who, in the 
opinion of the reteree, has offended deliberately against this 
rule. 

RULE XV. 

Change of Players. — No change of players shail be made 
after a match has commenced, except by reason of accident or 
injury during the game. 

RULE XVL 

Injured Player, — Should any player be injured during a 
match and compelled to leave the ice, the opposite side shall 
always drop a man to equalize the teams. In event of any 
dis|)ute between the captains, as to the injured player's fitness 
to continue the game, the matter shall . t once be decided by 
the referee. 

RULE XVII. 

Stoppages. — Should the game be stopped by the referee by 
reason of the infringement of any of the rules, or because of 
an accident or cliange of players, the puck shall be faced at 
the spot where it was last played I^efore such infringement, 
accident or change of players shall have occurred. 



ICE POLO. 75 



ICE POLO 



Ice polo is said to be a development from shinney, but as it 
is played almost exclusively in New England, and especially 
in and about Boston, it would seem nearer correct to credit its 
origin to the great and popular game of roller polo, which is 
played very extensively by leagues of professional clubs in 
Boston, Fall River, Providence, Salem, Pawtucket, New Red- 
ford, Lynn, Worcester and many other Eastern towns. 

The game is frequently and erroneously referred to as 
American ice hockey by Canadians and those in this country 
who are unacquainted with either game. In the method of 
play there is a vast difference in the two games (ice hockey 
and ice polo), though in the object sought there is a great 
similarity. 

In ice polo a ball is used instead of a puck, and a much 
heavier and stouter stick is employed, but the cardinal point 
wherein these sports differ, is the absence of any rule forbidding 
off-side play in ice polo and the almost universal one-handed 
use of the ice polo stick. Consequently ice polo is a more 
open game, the field of players being continually separated 
and the tries-for-goal being made from passes from unlimited 
directions. 

Five men constitute an ice polo team, as follows : One goal- 
tend, one half-back, one centre and two rushers. The rushers 
must be rapid skaters, adepts in dribbling and passing, as well 
as accurate goal shots. They are called upon to shoot the ball 
at the goal when it is shot to them at its swiftest, from one of 
their own team. The centre is a support for the rushers, and 
either tries for goal himself or passes the ball to the most 
available rusher. Generally these three men carry the ball 



■76 ICE POLO. 

down the rink in a triangular formation, equilateral or with 
the base of the triangle from the opposing goal, thus allowing 
of continual passing, one to the other, when the man carrying 
the ball is opposed. The half-back should be the most robust 
man of the team, as he must block his opponent's rushes, being 
the first defense man they meet in the run toward the goal 
they attack. His is a most difficult position, as he must also 
intercept the majority of the tries for the goal which he de- 
fends. The goal-tend must be a cool but active player. He 
should rarely leave his station and never except in the case of 
a great emergency. 

Though this game has been largely indulged in in past 
winters, it is believed to be on the decline, due to the rapid 
increase of the much more scientific game of ice hockey. 

Harvard, Yale and Brown Universities, Boston and Tufts 
Colleges and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have 
played ice polo for several years, but last winter all took up 
the Canadian game, which Yale was the first to introduce. 

The Massachusetts Ice Polo League is the principal body 
fostering the game. Its membership includes teams represent- 
ing Newton, Waltham, Newton A. A., Tufts College, Dorches- 
ter, Felton A. A., Wakefield, Roxbury A. C. and Cambridge 
Ice Polo and Hockey team. 

The latter team, which easily won the championship of the 
League, is considered the strongest aggregation that ever 
played ice polo, and is clearly entitled to championship honors 
by the splendid record made last M'inter. They played the 
following twenty-three matches without losing one : 

Cambridge Ice Polo and Hockey Team — Record of Ice 
Polo Matches — Season of 1896-97. 

Date. Goals. Goals. 

Dec. 18— Cambridge 8 Salem 

" 22— " 4 Newton 0* 

" 26— " 9 Lowell A. A 

" 28— " 1 Harvard University 

Jan. 4 — " 7 Lawrence 

" 7 — " 7 Brown University 2 

" 8— " 5 Woburn 

" 9— " 3 Waltham 0* 

* Massachusetts Ice Polo League matches. 



ICE POLO. 

Cambridge Record — Continued. 

Date. Goals. Goals, 

Jan. 11— Cambridge 6 Lynn A. C 

" 14— " 3 Boston College 

" 16— " 12 Milton Academy 

" 17— " 3 Newton A. A 1* 

" 20— " 5 Tufts College 0* 

" 21— " 1 Dorchester 0* 

" 23— " 1 Arlington 1 

" 25— " 8 Tiger Roadsters 

" 26— " 7 Felton A. A 1* 

" 28— ■" 4 Wakefield 0* 

" 30— " 6 Roxbury A. C 0* 

Feb. 2— " 5 Boylston A. C 

" 4— " 5 Harvard Picked Team 

" 6— " 4 Cambridge H. and L. School. 

" 10— " 7 Brooklyn Ice Polo Team.... 



77 



Total 121 Total 5 

* Massachusetts Ice Polo League matches. 

The credit of the organization of the Cambridge Ice Polo 
and Hockey team belongs to W. E. Jewell, Jr., who is an 
enthusiastic skater and promoter of all amateur sports. His 
ice polo team was made up as follows: W. E. Jewell, Jr., Cap- 
tain; H. A. Hopkins, N. Tobey, Howard Glidden, Mark 
Lyman and "Jack" Corbett. 

******** 

The New England Skating Association Interscholastic Ice 
Polo League has done much to promote the sport among the 
schools in the past by offering for competition a handsome 
silver loving-cup. Many excellent matches have been played 
by the teams comprising this league, which included last win- 
ter the following: Melrose High School, Roxbury Latin School, 
Somerville High School, Cambridge High and Latin School 
and Boston English School. The championship was undecided 
last winter, as warm weather prevented the play-off of the tie 
between Cambridge High and Latin School and Melrose High 
School, neither of whom lost a match throughout the whole 
season. 

In the Inter-Prep. School League the team of the Arlington 
High School outclassed all the others and even defeated the 
Cambridge High and Latin School team, of the larger schooj 
league, in an exhibition match. 



78 ICE POOL. 

The ice polo team representing Brown University for two or 
three years back has been a very strong one, and their team of 
last season was only surpassed by the Cambridge five, who 
defeated Brown by a score of seven goals to two. The Brown 
team had a long string of victories to their credit last season, 
among them being the game against the Montclair Athletic 
Club, played in New York City on February 3d, which resulted 
in Brown's favor by two goals. to one. The players who com- 
posed the Brown team last season were as follows : Watson, 
Captain ; Purvear, Hunt, Chase, Merrimam and Barrows. 

In the vicinity of New York City for the last two winters the 
bright and shining light of ice polo circles was the New York 
Ice Polo Club, which made its headquarters at the Ice Palace 
skating rink. During the winter of 1895-6 this team (then 
called the Ice Palace Polo Club) played twenty-four matches, 
twenty-two of which were victories. One of these defeats was 
registered by the Brown University team, the score being four 
goals to two. Last winter this team made a record equally as 
good. Of fifteen matches played thirteen were victories, one a 
tie match, and one ended in a dispute. The record follows : 

Nev^ York Ice Polo Club — Record of Matches — 
Season of 1896-97. 

Goals Goals 

New York Ice Polo Club 5 Sagamore Ice Polo Club 

" " 2 I"assaic Ice Polo Club 1 

" " 5 St. Bartholomew A. C 

" " 5 Passaic Ice Polo Club 

8 New Rochelle Ice Polo Club... 

3 Capitols of Albany (N. Y.).... 



Brooklyn Ice Polo Team 1 

4 Yonkers A. C 

1 Montclair A. C 1 

3 Clifton Ice Polo Team 

3 Sagamore Ice Polo Team 

1 Montclair A. C 0* 

6 Passaic Ice Polo Club 

2 Brooklyn Ice Polo Team 1 

5 Brooklyn Ice Polo Team 

Total 56 Total 4 

♦But one-half played ; match ended in a dispute. 



ICE POLO. 79 

The last two matches played with the Brooklyn Ice Polo 
Team were contests for a handsome silver cup, emblematic of 
the Ice Polo Championship of Greater New York. Tlie per- 
sonnel of the New York team was as follows : B. Phillips, 
Cannoll, Maloney, Bowe, Lake, Banning, Haspenwall, Koehler, 
Tierney, A. Wood, S. Kelly, H. Kelly, Palmato and Hornfeck, 

Among other teams about the metropolit'^.n district last 
winter were the following : Brooklyn Ice Polo Team, Montclair 
A. C, St. Bartholomew A. C, United States Marine Corps 
Ice Polo Team, from the Brooklyn Navy Yard ; New Rochelle 
Ice Polo Club, Passaic Ice Polo Club, Yonkers A. C, Hastings 
Ice Polo Team, Pastime A. C, Hugueiiot A. C, Sagamore Ice 
Polo Team and Clifton Ice Polo Team. 



80 ICE POLO. 



PLAYING RULES OF ICE POLO 



AS ADOPTED BY THE 



new En^lana SKatmg J1$$ocidtion 

««« 

1. Each team shall consist of five plays, as follows: one goal- 
tend, one half back, one centre, two rushers. 

2. The distance from goal to goal shall be 150 feet. The 
goal shall be four feet wide. 

3. The regulation Spalding Rubber Covered Polo Ball shall 
be used exclusively. 

4. The sticks shall not exceed four feet in length nor one 
and one-fourth inches in diameter. Sticks shall have no mater- 
ial of any kind on them more than one foot from the top. No 
stringing of any kind is permissible. 

5. The Referee shall examine the sticks of each player be- 
fore the game begins. 

6. Each Goal Umpire shall make a mark in some way on the 
goal tender eighteen inches from the ice, so that it may be 
seen plainly. 

7. Time shall be taken out from the moment after a goal is 
made and the ball is placed in the centre to the moment when 
the sides are lined up ready to rush. 

8. The time between halves shall not exceed ten minutes. 

9. After each goal the ball shall be placed in the centre. 

10. The Referee shall place tlie ball in the centre of the field 
between the two goals, and when both teams are lined up in 
their respective places, shall give the signal for play to begin. 



ICE POLO. 8l 

11. In case of a skate coming off, or a serious accident, the 
Referee shall call ime and deduct time accordingly. Time 
shall not be called because a player drops or otherwise loses 
control of his stick. 

12. No time exceeding five minutes shall be taken out for 
skate coming off or serious accident. 

13. At the end of first half the sides shall change goals. 

14. When time is called owing to loss of skate or serious 
injury, each player shall remain exactly where he was at the 
moment when time was called, and shall not move so that he 
cannot resume his exact location, until the Referee calls play. 

15. In case of a tie the contesting teams shall play not to 
exceed ten minutes until one side makes a goal, 

16. Should time be lengthened in above manner, in case of a 
serious accident or skate coming off, play must be resumed 
within two minutes. 

17. A forfeited game shall count three goals to the side to 
whom the game is forfeited; nothing being allowed the oppo- 
site side. 

18. For every three fouls which a side makes one goal shall 
be deducted. 

19. A goal shall be considered as three (3) points. 

20. In case of tie, the side which has made fewest fouls shall 
be declared the winner. 

21. A postponed game or a tie game shall be played off as 
soon as the weather permits. 

22. A goal is made by passing the ball over a straight line 
connecting the two elements of the goal at height from the ice 
of not more than eighteen inches. 

23. There shall be two 20-minute halves. 

24. It shall constitute a foul (i) if any player touches the 
ball with his hand; (2) if any player blocks off or holds; (3) if 
any player purposely trips another player; (4) if any player 
throws his stick at the ball; (5) if any player goes within the 
Goal-Tender's circle; (6) if any player kicks the ball into the 
goal; (7) if any player strikes the ball while his skate is off; 
(8) if any player drives the ball through the goal from the rear; 



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(9) if any player strikes the ball while any portion of his body 
is in contact with the ice. 

25. The Goal-Tender's circle shall include the ice within a 
radius of two feet from the centre of the goal. 

26. The duties of the Umpires shall be to decide if the ball 
goes within the required goal limits. 

27. The duties of the Referee shall be to have general charge 
of the ball, to call time and to declare the fouls. 

The decision of the Referee shall be final, and any club 
refusing to play the game out shall lose the game. 



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4. How to Become a Boxer. 

5. Gymnastics. [Campbel 

6. How to Play Lawn Tennis. By Champion 

7. How to Play Base Ball. Just the thing for 

Boys. By Walter Camp. 

9. The Athlete's Guide. How to Run, Sprint, ( 
Jump, Walk, and Throw Weights. 

12. Association Foot Ball. 

13. Hand Ball. 

14. Curling, Hockey and Polo. 
16. Skating. A very practical book. By Champion' 
18. Fencing. [Geo. D. Phillips. 

20. Cricket Guide. By Geo. Wright. 

21. Rowing. By E. J. Giannini, Champion Amateur 
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25. Swimming. By Walter G. Douglas. 

26. How to Play Foot Ball. By Walter Camp. 

27. College_ Athletics. By M. C. Murphy. [son. 

29. Exercising with Pulley Weights. H. S. Ander- 

30. How to Play Lacrosse. By W. H. Corbett. 
32. Practical Ball Playing. By Arthur A. Irwin. 
37. All Around Athletics 

39, Lawn Bowls. By Henri^ Chadwick. 

40. Archery. By James S. Mitchel. 
42. How to Use the Punching Bag. 

55. gportin? Rules ; for discus throwing, etc. 

57. Official Roller Polo Guidcfor 1896-7. 

58. Bowling. Latest rules and regulations. 

60. Indoor Base Ball. 

61. Athletic Almanac for 1897. 

62. Military Cycling in the Rocky Mountains. By 

Lieut. James A. Moss, U. S. A. 

63. Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide. 

64. Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annual. 

65. Intercollegiate A. A. A. A. Guide. 

66. Technical Terms of Base Ball. 

67. Rowing Guide. 

68. Official Croquet Guide. 

69. Official A. a: U. Rules. [Walter Camp. 

70. Official Foot Ball Guide for 1897. Edited by 

71. Official Golf Guide. 

72. Physical Training Simplified. No Apparatus. 

73. Official Basket Ball Guide for 1897-8. , 

74. Official Bicycle Guide. Instructions to cyclists; 
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